The Soviet space program had a lot of hope riding on the Cosmos 482 mission ... All in the Family was a hit on TV, and you don't even want to know how cheap a house was ($27,400). But spacecraft and ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine malfunction.

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...

As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left in Earth orbit, it’s not your average piece of space junk ... An episode of the hit 1970s TV series The Six Million Dollar Man characterised ...

Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 was launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union as part of a series of missions to Venus.

WASHINGTON — A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its ...

(Web Desk) - Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972 ... and falling into the Indian Ocean, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The European ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus ... might come down or how much of it will survive reentry, according to space debris-tracking experts. Dutch scientist Marco Langbroek predicts ...